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How to prevent Android keyboard from suggesting words from your contact list

Spell checker is a great feature designed to correct your typos. But you might want to stop your keyboard suggesting the names from your contact list because of security reasons – if you don’t want your contact names to appear in the suggestions line. Here is how to disable the lookup of contact names on Android 7 Nougat.

How to disable the lookup of contact names on Android 7 and prevent Android keyboard from suggesting words from your contact list

Launch Settings:

Go to Language and input:

Select Spell checker:

Tap the gear icon near Spell checker:

Disable the option Look up contact names: That’s it. From now on the keyboard won’t suggest you the names of your contacts.